Fedora 42: FEDORA-2025-db5caba0cc critical: ghostscript UTF-8 handling
fedora
May 23, 2025
10.05.1, security fix for CVE-2025-46646 (fedora#2362935, fedora#2362446, fedora#2362640)
Summary
This package provides useful conversion utilities based on Ghostscript software,
for converting PS, PDF and other document formats between each other.
Ghostscript is a suite of software providing an interpreter for Adobe Systems'
PostScript (PS) and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages.
Its primary purpose includes displaying (rasterization & rendering) and printing
of document pages, as well as conversions between different document formats.
Update Information:
10.05.1, security fix for CVE-2025-46646 (fedora#2362935, fedora#2362446, fedora#2362640)
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Mon May 19 2025 Zdenek Dohnal
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2362446 - CVE-2025-46646 Ghostscript: Mishandling of Overlong UTF-8 Encoding in Artifex Ghostscript's decode_utf8 Function
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2362446
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-db5caba0cc' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
PREVIOUS
NEXT
Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical
Name: ghostscript
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 10.05.1
Release: 1.fc42
Summary: Interpreter for PostScript language & PDF
Topics Covered
Get the latest News and Insights
Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.
Related News
Powered By
Linux Security - Your source for Top Linux News, Advisories, HOWTOs and Feature Releases
QUICK LINKS
subscribe to newsletters!
Like staying secure? So do we.
Sign up for updates, tips, and alerts!